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[Q] Flashing without issues....untill now

I have been flashing for 4 months or so. During this time it has all been without incident. I have flashed 3 Captivates (mine being one of them, has been flashed 6-8 times) and one ARIA.
I recently flashed my daughters Cappy to Froyo 2.2. She is now wanting her phone to look like mine was (key word "was" more on this later) running Serendipity. I tried to flash v6.2 using CWM and found when I was in restore mode I was never given the option to load from sdcard. So here I'm stuck. Can the ROM actually be flashed from Froyo 2.2, simply?
My phone I went for the Serendipity v5.12 to v6.2 clear and reinstall. I had a major problem during the ODIN flash that flat-lined my phone. I've purchased a jig and am awaiting its arrival. I understand how the jig works, but don't really understand the next steps after getting into download mode! What steps do I take next? Do I start flash back to 2.1, do I just install Serendipity over what I had? Throughly confused!

tomween1 said:
I have been flashing for 4 months or so. During this time it has all been without incident. I have flashed 3 Captivates (mine being one of them, has been flashed 6-8 times) and one ARIA.
I recently flashed my daughters Cappy to Froyo 2.2. She is now wanting her phone to look like mine was (key word "was" more on this later) running Serendipity. I tried to flash v6.2 using CWM and found when I was in restore mode I was never given the option to load from sdcard. So here I'm stuck. Can the ROM actually be flashed from Froyo 2.2, simply?
My phone I went for the Serendipity v5.12 to v6.2 clear and reinstall. I had a major problem during the ODIN flash that flat-lined my phone. I've purchased a jig and am awaiting its arrival. I understand how the jig works, but don't really understand the next steps after getting into download mode! What steps do I take next? Do I start flash back to 2.1, do I just install Serendipity over what I had? Throughly confused!
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For your daughter's Captivate , did you try rebooting the phone and getting back onto recovery mode to see whether it was just a weird recovery boot ? LOL idk , I never heard of that one , but it may be fixed through a simple reboot . IF that doesn't work , try flashing another kernel through Odin + Download Mode .
For your Captivate , once you get to download mode , flash DG's stock Captivate Eclair (It has the 3-button mode fix , just in case you might not have it or ... just in case) . If that goes great , then install Rom Manager to get CWM , then start flashing again .
Yeah I'm kinda skipping steps , but you said that you've flashed before , so it should be a piece of cake to fit in the pieces together .
There are also other methods like Master Clearing , flashing another stock ROM , etc. but the method I posted has always helped me in tight situations .
BTW , does your captivate have the 3-Button combo ?

dayloooo said:
For your daughter's Captivate , did you try rebooting the phone and getting back onto recovery mode to see whether it was just a weird recovery boot
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Yes I tried several times. Always getting the same options, always excluding sdcard option.
dayloooo said:
IF that doesn't work , try flashing another kernel through Odin + Download Mode
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Why would I flash a different kernel to stock Froyo?
dayloooo said:
There are also other methods like Master Clearing
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This is where I was when the catastrophe hit!
dayloooo said:
BTW , does your captivate have the 3-Button combo ?
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FYSA yes It does....did

tomween1 said:
I have been flashing for 4 months or so. During this time it has all been without incident. I have flashed 3 Captivates (mine being one of them, has been flashed 6-8 times) and one ARIA.
I recently flashed my daughters Cappy to Froyo 2.2. She is now wanting her phone to look like mine was (key word "was" more on this later) running Serendipity. I tried to flash v6.2 using CWM and found when I was in restore mode I was never given the option to load from sdcard. So here I'm stuck. Can the ROM actually be flashed from Froyo 2.2, simply?
My phone I went for the Serendipity v5.12 to v6.2 clear and reinstall. I had a major problem during the ODIN flash that flat-lined my phone. I've purchased a jig and am awaiting its arrival. I understand how the jig works, but don't really understand the next steps after getting into download mode! What steps do I take next? Do I start flash back to 2.1, do I just install Serendipity over what I had? Throughly confused!
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flash the leaked odin froyo from designgears REV02. you should fine after that

Which can be found here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QL6NX702
1. Open that .exe found in the .zip in the link above. (Make sure you run the .exe!)
2. Put your phone into download mode.
3. Plug in the USB.
4. The program (Odin One-Click) should find the phone.
5. Basically follow the only option you get, and it'll be done for you automagically (apart from 'Master Reset', which you might want to do AFTER you finish resetting it back to stock).

tomween1 said:
I have been flashing for 4 months or so. During this time it has all been without incident. I have flashed 3 Captivates (mine being one of them, has been flashed 6-8 times) and one ARIA.
I recently flashed my daughters Cappy to Froyo 2.2. She is now wanting her phone to look like mine was (key word "was" more on this later) running Serendipity. I tried to flash v6.2 using CWM and found when I was in restore mode I was never given the option to load from sdcard. So here I'm stuck. Can the ROM actually be flashed from Froyo 2.2, simply?
My phone I went for the Serendipity v5.12 to v6.2 clear and reinstall. I had a major problem during the ODIN flash that flat-lined my phone. I've purchased a jig and am awaiting its arrival. I understand how the jig works, but don't really understand the next steps after getting into download mode! What steps do I take next? Do I start flash back to 2.1, do I just install Serendipity over what I had? Throughly confused!
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I dont think anyone that responded actually understood what you were saying, possibly myself included.
First part(daughter), froyo 2.2 stock has 3e recovery that requires a signed update.zip. You need to root it to install the modded 3e recovery in the dev section that removes the signature verification. OR flash it back to 2.1 with oden(yes downgrade it to upgrade it). Im sure there are other methods, those are just 2 i can think of off the top of my head.
Then you can install cwm with a cwm update.zip that is floating around the captivate forums.
From there you can install any rom with the normal methods.
Second part(you), odin bricks phones. Its not talked about very much but its easy to do. Your usb cable was probably loose, or bad, and cause an error and your phone soft bricked. Once you get the jig, pop it in get into download mode - start odin - connect the phone to the pc - wait for odin to detect it - flash 2.1 - flash serendipity.
If im understanding your problems correctly.

venomio said:
(apart from 'Master Reset', which you might want to do AFTER you finish resetting it back to stock).
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Meaning after a new rom is no longer wanted? It's already stock.

So what you want to do is to Master Clear the Stock ROM before you install the new custom ROM on to it. This will prevent any possible problem coming up while flashing. (Of course, it will clear all data in your internal SD).

whiteguypl said:
Your usb cable was probably loose, or bad, and cause an error and your phone soft bricked
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You hit the nail on the head I was half way through Odin when my computer made the disconnect sound and then reconnected immidiatly I kinda figured I was [email protected]@k?$ at this point. This was different though, because I've been able to come out of soft boots befiore. No doubt I was playing w/ fire thoes times

Thats exactly why I wanted to get a jig before I started any of my ROM flashing. I had an issue when I started Recovery Mode would just prompt restart and other things off the bass menu, when I tried to back up.
I had to flash 2.1 Eclair and then master Wipe it. Then I was able to do anything to.
Sucks you bricked it. EVERYONE Bricks one time at least one electronic device.
<--PSP Bricker

[Q] Scrambled TV-like screen during boot or in CWM Recovery

Hello everybody. First of all, I'm quite new to the whole android world as I got my Galaxy S only three months ago. But I want to take full advantage of it's power so I decided to root it quite quickly. And now I had stumbled upon a problem and had no luck in finding a solution. That's the reason for this thread.
I went through other topics in this forum and it seems no one ever had a problem like this.
I've installed a RomKitchen custom XXJVB rom with Chainfire's kernel (CF Root XW XEE JVB v3.1 CWM3RFS) according to the instructions provided there - I flashed CWM 2.5 with Odin, then updated from CWM Recovery to Gingerbread.
In general, after doing this, everything works fine, the phone got super-fast, no issues there. However, now, during boot the screen displays a TV-like scrambled signal (like white noise... only it isn't white). It's hard to explain so I attached a picture.
It's like the whole screen is covered in coloured pixels. Sometime's a line of pixels moves. A similar thing happens when I try to boot into recovery - it boots but the display is all scrambled. The recovery menu works (when I use the volume buttons the pixels on the screen change their position) but I can't see a thing.
I tried virtually every solution I could think of - I wiped everything, did a factory reset, installed everything again. Still the same. When I revert to stock Froyo 2.2.1 this doen't happen anymore. But I prefer Gingerbread over Froyo.
So, have anyone here seen a similar problem and knows how to fix this? I would be very grateful for any pointers
EDIT: Silly me, guess I haven't searched hard enough :/ It seems I'm missing the new bootloaders.

hardoc said:
EDIT: Silly me, guess I haven't searched hard enough :/ It seems I'm missing the new bootloaders.
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Yeah, that's it.
Flash JVB stock with bootloader. Load your cooked rom onto internal sd card. Then flash the speedmod kernal in Odin with auto reboot unchecked. Pull the battery, then boot the phone into recovery, and flash your cooked rom.

electrotune1200 said:
Yeah, that's it.
Flash JVB stock with bootloader. Load your cooked rom onto internal sd card. Then flash the speedmod kernal in Odin with auto reboot unchecked. Pull the battery, then boot the phone into recovery, and flash your cooked rom.
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I am getting this scrambled screen at the beginning of reboot after flash to serendipity VII. My phone will come up fine after the scrambled screen. But I cannot see the cwm page if I selected "recovery". Any help? Is this the bootloader being corrupted? Thx.

hi i do have a same problem in my htc desire hd its not only in boot menu its also have a problem while phone is booted. if i press hardly in the side of the phone its became scrambled,
please help me how to solve this?
htc desire hd
rom - rcmix 3d kingdom v2.0
clockwokmod recovery v.3.0.2.6

Hi guys I'm having similar problem with my galaxy s but my scrambled screen looks different but same thing, phone works but I can't see anything on recovery, please help us out tech God's
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steve57925 said:
Hi guys I'm having similar problem with my galaxy s but my scrambled screen looks different but same thing, phone works but I can't see anything on recovery, please help us out tech God's
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Flash this bootloader through odin/heimdall, tick Update Phone Bootloader and click FLASH
http://www.chameleonwebhosting.com/galnetmiui/EZboot-GingerBread-1.0.tar.md5

[Q] Did I brick it?

Hi guys,
Pretty new at this. I was trying to switch over from firefly to Sensation just now on my captivate. I used odin toflash back to stock, and then used clockwork to install the Rom.
So the Rom installs fine, but the menu stays open with no option to reboot. For some reason I selected Apply update.zip. Then the phone reboots, at&t logo pops up. Instead of the phone booting up after that, the screen goes black and a blue stripe runs across the screen. I know the phone still has power because the buttons still light up, but no signs of life other than that.
How bad does it sound, and what is my next step?

weird, thats a new one...
yank the battery, then try the button combos to get onto download mode and flash back to stock.

And once after stock u still wanna go for Sensation then DO NOT forget to flash gb bootloaders prior the rom Follow the instructions in the op !!

Ok, thanks for the help so far. Finally got it into download mode and after a bit of fighting I was able to wipe it again. Used Odin one click to go back to stock.
The bootloader thing was the problem, I didn't even see that in the post. Must have passed it by when I was trying to skip to the end of the pictures.
Reading the instructions now, I'm kind of strugging. To flash to the I9000 Gingerbread, does it matter than my phone is I897?

Read, read and read and follow the instructions and u'll be fine. Now that you're back on 2.1 follow the steps from 2nd post from -B onwards.
There are 3 types of roms for our cappys : i897 base , i9000 base and AOSP base ROMs. The SensatioN rom is i9000 based (JVQ) ,reoriendted for cappy.

[q] please help me

so today i upgraded to gingerbread 2.3.5 on my samsung captivate or i-897. it was all fine until i started to try the teamhacksung build 16 for ICS. i was trying to install it and somehow my phone locked up on me. everytime i try to boot up my phone it goes to galaxy s and just sits. i can get it into recovery and download but then odin will not pick it up? help?

that rom has a Q and A page. go there to ask questions about it. NOT the DEV PAGE. Q&A.try searching the thread. and reading it.
100% chance your problem has been asked at least 10 times.

i went there and searched im sorry it hasnt been thats why i posted a thing. so stop being so rude and help someone out really.

Calko2882 said:
i went there and searched im sorry it hasnt been thats why i posted a thing. so stop being so rude and help someone out really.
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You need to be in download mode for odin to pick it up. Start odin first then with your phone off, hold in your up/down volume keys and plug in your usb cable.
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telling you the proper place to post a question is not being rude. Im trying to help you find other people that have the same rom setup as you. they dont always look at other threads like this. they only care about THEIR ROM. so posting there, they would find your question... here they wont.
and the answer to your very first problem... if the rom install locks up (which it RARELY does) flash again.
**normally it "looks" like it locks up but the user is actually impatient, or the install script doenst program the status bar very well and it looks like its not doing anything although it is.
and first boot after flashing can take upto 10 mintues at boot animation.

ive done all of this plenty of times, ive even read how to create them. and i know you do as well. ive done all the odin i can but it got stuck at the galaxy s boot screen like the black one with white lettering and the i897 tag too. but it wont go past, and now wen i plugged it in it bricked so i have no idea wat to do now and i love this phone to death.

Calko2882 said:
ive done all of this plenty of times, ive even read how to create them. and i know you do as well. ive done all the odin i can but it got stuck at the galaxy s boot screen like the black one with white lettering and the i897 tag too. but it wont go past, and now wen i plugged it in it bricked so i have no idea wat to do now and i love this phone to death.
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Can't you just flash something from recovery? You probably put some ROM on your sd at some point. And if not, you can do that with USB from recovery
Sent from my CM9 ICS i897 Captivate

Once you didn't get past the boot screen you should have three buttoned to recovery and flashed the from again. It happens quite often when you go to THS ICS or CM7. So if your not truly bricked which you shouldn't be unless you used a Odin with boot loaders then just used Odin and flash speed mod kernel or another kernel that will give you the correct cwm recovery. Then BEFORE trying to reboot flash the ICS ROM, then when it finishes flash it a second time BEFORE REBOOTING, then flash gapps, then reboot.
What happens is that the first time you try to go to cm7 or cm9 it basically flashes the kernel and cwm recovery from I can tell, then the second flash will be able to get you through all the boot up. Plus wait a while without touching it and it will come up. It takes a while on the first ever flash to it.
Sent from MY SPH-P100 running ICS

how can i put it on through recovery? and my usb debugging isnt on my fone just spazzed when i was loading up ics nd now its softbricked.

i actually just unbricked but i am still stuck at the galaxy s sgh-i897 screen thats black and white.

Cannot make phone start, stuck at Semaphore logo / animation

Hi,
As the title says I have small problem. I bought my SGS1 with custom rom and kernel flashed into it already - sometimes it shows wrong time, went into recovery mode without my knowledge, had some problems with apps. Today I pressed Power and chose reboot - now I am stuck at animation that appears after logo kernel Semaphore. Of course I tried to look in other threads, I found a lot of them but still I cant figure out how to do it. You see, I never did it before and it's all hokus-pokus to me even tho I read stuff here at the forums. I managed to get into downloand and recovery mode using 3 button combo What do I do now? It seems way too complicated for newbie like me, every post isn't explaining it enuff for me. Can someone help me or at least give some tips, clues?
Things I got installed are Android 4 .0.4, 3.0.8 Semaphore ics 1.1.2s.
Thanks in advance guys

krzysiekx said:
Hi,
As the title says I have small problem. I bought my SGS1 with custom rom and kernel flashed into it already - sometimes it shows wrong time, went into recovery mode without my knowledge, had some problems with apps. Today I pressed Power and chose reboot - now I am stuck at animation that appears after logo kernel Semaphore. Of course I tried to look in other threads, I found a lot of them but still I cant figure out how to do it. You see, I never did it before and it's all hokus-pokus to me even tho I read stuff here at the forums. I managed to get into downloand and recovery mode using 3 button combo What do I do now? It seems way too complicated for newbie like me, every post isn't explaining it enuff for me. Can someone help me or at least give some tips, clues?
Things I got installed are Android 4 .0.4, 3.0.8 Semaphore ics 1.1.2s.
Thanks in advance guys
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Get in recovery, clear cache and dalvik cache and reboot.
It will take a while to full boot cause it will have to rebuild it's cache but should work from there.
If it doesn't, You'll need more stuff but we'll get to that then.

BWolf56 said:
Get in recovery, clear cache and dalvik cache and reboot.
It will take a while to full boot cause it will have to rebuild it's cache but should work from there.
If it doesn't, You'll need more stuff but we'll get to that then.
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Okay. I wiped cache and dalvik. Now I'm waiting on animation screen for 30 minutes. I'll let you know what happens after 1 hour.
By the way does any of those problems could be related to low battery? I had like 20% last time I rebooted my phone and problems started.
One more thing is - I don't have memory microSD card - guy sent me 16GB one but it doesn't work. Can we fix it without it? I wanted to buy a new one eventually
EDIT: Okay, one hour passed after I wiped cache. Everything was stuck on animation but suddenly, after I walked out of phone for a 5 minutes it stopped - everything was gone, I couldn't Power it or use 3 button combo. I think that's cuz battery went low. I plugged it into charger, we'll see if it charges. I hope so. EDIT2: Yeah, that was battery. Still can enter Recovery.

krzysiekx said:
Okay. I wiped cache and dalvik. Now I'm waiting on animation screen for 30 minutes. I'll let you know what happens after 1 hour.
By the way does any of those problems could be related to low battery? I had like 20% last time I rebooted my phone and problems started.
One more thing is - I don't have memory microSD card - guy sent me 16GB one but it doesn't work. Can we fix it without it? I wanted to buy a new one eventually
EDIT: Okay, one hour passed after I wiped cache. Everything was stuck on animation but suddenly, after I walked out of phone for a 5 minutes it stopped - everything was gone, I couldn't Power it or use 3 button combo. I think that's cuz battery went low. I plugged it into charger, we'll see if it charges. I hope so. EDIT2: Yeah, that was battery. Still can enter Recovery.
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Did you recently remove the sd card? If so, try booting with it in your cell.
If that doesn't work, Mount your phone through recovery to backup your stuff on PC (like pics).
Now you'll need Odin KK4 without bootloaders (found in the stickies). As will as corn kernel and Odin 1.87. And finally a JB rom you wanna use on your internal sd.
Get your phone in download mode and flash KK4 (stock GB). Let it do us it's magic, once done, make sure it boots up fine. Then get back in recovery to flash corn kernel with odin 1.87 (gotta put it in the PDA slot). Finally, follow the FULL instructions provided by the ROM dev you chose.
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BWolf56 said:
Did you recently remove the sd card? If so, try booting with it in your cell.
If that doesn't work, Mount your phone through recovery to backup your stuff on PC (like pics).
Now you'll need Odin KK4 without bootloaders (found in the stickies). As will as corn kernel and Odin 1.87. And finally a JB rom you wanna use on your internal sd.
Get your phone in download mode and flash KK4 (stock GB). Let it do us it's magic, once done, make sure it boots up fine. Then get back in recovery to flash corn kernel with odin 1.87 (gotta put it in the PDA slot). Finally, follow the FULL instructions provided by the ROM dev you chose.
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Damn that's confusing. First thing this subforum - it's for AT&T and other branded phones? My isn't like one of them! I guess I had the wrong subforum all the time. Or maybe your instructions will still work with my GT-I9000? Damn, I got confused seeing AT&T and Rogers everywhere in stickies. My phone aint associated to any of those brands. Am I writing in wrong subforum? :3 That'd sad

krzysiekx said:
Damn that's confusing. First thing this subforum - it's for AT&T and other branded phones? My isn't like one of them! I guess I had the wrong subforum all the time. Or maybe your instructions will still work with my GT-I9000? Damn, I got confused seeing AT&T and Rogers everywhere in stickies. My phone aint associated to any of those brands. Am I writing in wrong subforum? :3 That'd sad
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Eh yeah you're and it's a really good thing you noticed! Could've bricked your phone.
The lil guide i gave you is the same but you gotta use their files. You'll have to go over there to get them.
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Uff. That was at close one. I'm glad that I noticed that before trying anything. Anyway thanks for your help mate. I owe you one. Have a nice day.
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